Czechia, Germany targeted by long-term APT28 cyberespionage campaign

Attacks leveraging the critical Microsoft Outlook privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-23397, have been launched by Russian state-sponsored threat operation APT28 — also known as Forest Blizzard, BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, and TA422 — against the Czech Republic and Germany as part of a long-term cyberespionage campaign, according to The Hacker News.

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